dúnorgain

Irish

Alternative forms

• dúnoircne

Etymology

From dún- +‎ orgain, an alternative form of argain (“destruction”). The word does not appear in the Historical Irish Corpus (1600–1926) nor in either edition of Dinneen’s dictionary, so it may be a modern learned borrowing from Middle Irish duinorcun and Classical Gaelic dunoirccne.

Noun

dúnorgain f (genitive singular dúnorgana)

1. (law) manslaughter

Declension

Declension of dúinorgain (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative dúinorgain vocative a dhúinorgain genitive dúnorgana dative dúinorgain forms with the definite article case singular nominative an dúinorgain genitive na dúnorgana dative leis an dúinorgain don dúinorgain

Mutation

Mutated forms of dúnorgain

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dúnorgain	dhúnorgain	ndúnorgain

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dúnorgain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN